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hack89

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4. Opioid painkillers kill nearly 20,000 a year

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2014, 02:18 PM

Feb 2014

From 1999 to 2010, the number of U.S. drug poisoning deaths involving any opioid analgesic (e.g., oxycodone, methadone, or hydrocodone) more than quadrupled, from 4,030 to 16,651, accounting for 43% of the 38,329 drug poisoning deaths and 39% of the 42,917 total poisoning deaths in 2010. In 1999, opioid analgesics were involved in 24% of the 16,849 drug poisoning deaths and 20% of the 19,741 total poisoning deaths.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6212a7.htm

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